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Maja Andrič, PhD

Research Associate, Assist. prof.

+386 1 47 06 434

+386 1 47 06 646

maja.andric@zrc-sazu.si


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Education and Qualifications

Research interests

Studies of Lateglacial and Holocene palaeoenvironment and human impact on the vegetation. My research is based on high-resolution pollen analysis of sedimentary cores, with an emphasis on methodologically diverse, multirdisciplinary multi-proxy team work and international cooperation.

Editing

Member of the Editorial board of the Documenta Praehistorica

Teaching

  • Environmental Archaeology, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology
  • Palinology (course principal), Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU
  • PhD students
    Nina Caf (2018–2022), Palaeoecological research in the Julian Alps, PhD thesis, Postgraduate School of ZRC SAZU and Institute of Archaeology, ZRC SAZU

Awards and Recognitions:

  • Recognition of the Slovenian Archeology Society for the year 2017 for the scientific monograph Okoljska arheologija in paleoekologija. Palinologija, arheobotanika in arheozoologija (Environmental archaeology and palaeoecology. Palynology, archaeobotany and archaeozoology; only in Slovenian) (2016)
  • Marjorie Clerk Scholarship (St. Hugh’s College, Oxford), ORS award, Dulverton trust scholarship, 1999–2000
  • Graduate Scholarship, Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1997–1998

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Although the Institute of Archeology moved to Novi trg 5, the palinology office and the palynological laboratory are still at Gosposka 13.

2024

  • ANDRIČ, Maja, KARGER, Dirk Nikolaus. The Holocene vegetation and land-use history in the northern Dinaric Karst. – V / In: FUERST-BJELIŠ, Borna et al. (ur. / ed.), Environmental histories of the Dinaric Karst, Environmental history 17, 2024, 29–50. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56089-7_2
  • LIPAR, Matej, LOJEN, Sonja, BREG VALJAVEC, Mateja, ANDRIČ, Maja, ŠMUC, Andrej, LEVANIČ, Tom, TIČAR, Jure, ZORN, Matija, FERK, Mateja, Holocene climate variability in Slovenia : a review / Holocenska podnebna spremenljivost v Sloveniji : pregled. − Acta geographica Slovenica. 64/ 2, 2024, 7−40. DOI: 10.3986/AGS.12798
  • SAYEDI, Sayedeh Sara, ABBOTT, Benjamin W., VANNIÈRE, Boris, LEYS, Bérangère, COLOMBAROLI, Daniele, GIL ROMERA, Graciela, SŁOWIŃSKI, Michał, ALEMAN, Julie C., BLARQUEZ, Olivier, ANDRIČ, Maja, et al., Assessing changes in global fire regimes. −Fire ecology. 8th February 2024, vol. 20, article no. 18,. 1−22. DOI: 10.1186/s42408-023-00237-9

2023

  • CAF, Nina, SABATIER, Pierre, ŠMUC, Andrej, OGRINC, Nives, DOLENEC, Matej, RAPUC, William, POTOČNIK, Doris, GRAFENSTEIN, Ulrich von, ANDRIČ, Maja. Multi-proxy reconstruction of the Holocene vegetation and land use dynamics in the Julian Alps, north-west Slovenia. Journal of quaternary science. 2023, vol. 38, issue 1, str. 107-122, zvd., graf. prikazi. ISSN 0267-8179. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3461. [COBISS.SI-ID 115990019]
  • SERGE, M. A., MAZIER, F., FYFE, Ralph, GAILLARD, Marie-José, KLEIN, T., LAGNOUX, A., GALOP, D., GITHUMBI, E., MÎNDRESCU, Marcel, NIELSEN, A. B., ANDRIČ, Maja, et al. Testing the effect of relative pollen productivity on the REVEALS model : a validated reconstruction of Europe-wide Holocene vegetation. Land. [Online ed.]. 2023, vol. 12, [article no. 986], str. 1-31, ilustr., zvd. ISSN 2073-445X. DOI: 10.3390/land12050986. [COBISS.SI-ID 154393603]
  • LEGHISSA, Elena, ANDRIČ, Maja, TOLAR, Tjaša, TOŠKAN, Borut, VELUŠČEK, Anton, Reviving the heritage of pile dwellings in the Ljubljansko barje: reconstruction of a pile-dwelling settlement from the 3rd millennium BC. – Museoeurope 8, Srečanja tisočletij / The convergence of millennia, Maribor, 333–343.

2022

  • CAF, Nina, SABATIER, Pierre, ŠMUC, Andrej, OGRINC, Nives, DOLENEC, Matej, RAPUC, William, POTOČNIK, Doris, GRAFENSTEIN, Ulrich von, ANDRIČ, Maja. Multi-proxy reconstruction of the Holocene vegetation and land use dynamics in the Julian Alps, north-west Slovenia. Journal of quaternary science, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jqs.3461.
  • LEGHISSA, Elena, ANDRIČ, Maja, TOLAR, Tjaša, TOŠKAN, Borut, VELUŠČEK, Anton, Obujena koliščarska dediščina na Ljubljanskem barju. – Arheo 39, Srečanja tisočletij / The convergence of millennia, Maribor, 203–207.

2010−2020

  • ANDRIČ, Maja. Maharski prekop, Stare gmajne and Blatna Brezovica settlements and the vegetation of Ljubljansko barje (Slovenia) in the 4th millennium cal BC. − Documenta Praehistorica. Poročilo o raziskovanju paleolitika, neolitika in eneolitika v Sloveniji. Neolitske študije= Neolithic studies 47, 2020, 420−445, DOI: 10.4312/dp.47.24.
  • ANDRIČ, Maja, SABATIER, Pierre, RAPUC, William, OGRINC, Nives, DOLENEC, Matej, ARNAUD, Fabien, GRAFENSTEIN, Ulrich von, ŠMUC, Andrej. 6600 years of human and climate impacts on lake-catchment and vegetation in the Julian Alps (Lake Bohinj, Slovenia). Quaternary Science Reviews 227, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106043.
  • RAPUC, William, SABATIER, Pierre, ANDRIČ, Maja, CROUZET, Christian, ARNAUD, Fabien, CHAPRON, Emmanuel, ŠMUC, Andrej, DEVELLE, Anne-Lise, WILHELM, Bruno, DEMORY, François, REYSS, Jean-Louis, RÉGNIER, Edouard, DAUT, Gerhard, GRAFENSTEIN, Ulrich von. 6600 years of earthquake record in the Julian Alps (Lake Bohinj, Slovenia). Sedimentology 65, 2018, str. 1777-1799, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106043. [COBISS.SI-ID 1378398]
  • ANDRIČ, Maja, SABATIER, Pierre, RAPUC, William, OGRINC, Nives, DOLENEC, Matej, ARNAUD, Fabien, GRAFENSTEIN, Ulrich von, ŠMUC, Andrej. Vpliv človekovih aktivnosti (paša, poljedelstvo, rudarjenje) in klimatskih nihanj na rastlinstvo v povodju Bohinjskega jezera v zadnjih 6600 letih. − In. Ogrin M., Horvat J., Bizjak J., Langus K. (eds.), Življenje v Alpah, Bohinjska Bistrica, ArheoAlpe in Turizem Bohinj, 73-84.
  • ANDRIČ Maja, TOLAR Tjaša, TOŠKAN Borut 2016 Okoljska arheologija in paleoekologija: palinologija, arheobotanika in arheozoologija, Ljubljana.
  • Feurdean A., A. Perşoiu, I. Tanţău, T. Stevens, E.K. Magyari, B.P. Onac, S. Marković, M. Andrič, S. Connor, S. Fărcaş, M. Gałka, T. Gaudeny, W. Hoek, P. Kolaczek, P. Kuneš, M. Lamentowicz, E. Marinova, D.J. Michczyńska, I. Perşoiu, M. Płóciennik, M. Słowiński, M. Stancikaite, P. Sumegi, A. Svensson, T. Tămas, A. Timar, S. Tonkov, M. Toth, S. Veski, K.J. Willis, V. Zernitskaya. 2014, Climate variability and associated vegetation response throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) between 60 and 8 ka, Quaternary Science Reviews 106, 206–224.
  • LANE, C., ANDRIČ, M., CULLEN V. L. IN BLOCKLEY S. P. E., 2011, The occurrence of distal Icelandic and Italian tephra in the Lateglacial of Lake Bled, Slovenia. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 1013–1018.
  • ANDRIČ, M., MARTINČIČ, A., ŠTULAR B., PETEK F. in T. GOSLAR, 2010, Land-use changes in the Alps (Slovenia) in the fifteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries AD: A comparative study of the pollen record and historical data. The Holocene 20(7): 1023-1037.

2000−2009

 

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PROGRAMME: Archaeological research (2022−2027) (research programme • January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2027)
Bridging the GAP between Geological, Archaeological and Palynological studies (interdisciplinary project • January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2027)
Advanced digital methods in archaeology (bilateral project • January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2024)
Ironing out complexities in karst chronology: the Quaternary aeolianite karst phenomenon (June 1, 2025 - May 31, 2028)
Spatial and environmental reconstruction of medieval landscape: Herzegovina case study medieval BiH (fundamental research project • October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2024)
Dog or its master ? The scientific study of human or canine coprolites from the prehistoric pile-dwelling site of Stare gmajne, Slovenia (November 1, 2020 - October 31, 2024)
5000 years of grazing and mining activities in the Julian Alps (Slovenia): climate-human interactions as reflected in lake sediments, man-modified landscape and archaeological findings (July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2022)
Na-kolih - Interpretation of Biodiversity and Heritage of Pile Dwellings in the Ljubljana Marshes (July 1, 2019 - November 30, 2022)
PROGRAMME: Archaeological research (2015−2021) (research programme • January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2021)
Artefacts and landscapes. Structured Iron Age communities in the Notranjska region (May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2020)
Vegetation and hydrology of Ljubljansko barje in the past, present and future – a consequence of succession, human impact or climatic fluctuations? (July 1, 2014 - February 28, 2018)
PROGRAMME: Archaeological investigations (2009-2014) (research programme • January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2014)
The adaptation patterns of human activities to the environmental changes after Last Glacial Maximum in Slovenia (July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2014)
Prehistoric pile-dwelling settlements on the Ljubljansko barje, Slovenia: chronology, culture and palaeoenvironment (July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2014)
Space and time rainfall isotopic composition reconstruction around the Mediterranean Sea using speleothems, tree rings and lakes sediments - Instrumental calibration and comparison with isotopic model simulations (January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2013)
Multidisciplinary investigations of the pile-dwellings in the Ljubljansko barje (applied project • January 1, 2008 - January 31, 2011)
The Krvavec cultural heritage - preparation of tourist product and its management (applied project • January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2009)
Microscopic biological remains in cultural layers of Slovenian archaeological sites as a tool for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions (January 1, 2005 - December 31, 2007)
Archaeological and palynological resaerch in the Ljubljansko barje (research project • July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2007)
PINE (Predicting Impacts on Natural Ecotones) (exploration • May 1, 2002 - April 30, 2005)
The development of Slovenian cultural landscape: a comparison of phytolith and pollen record (January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2005)
Archaeological and Dendrochronological Research in the Ljubljansko barje (applied project • July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2004)
The development of Slovenian cultural landscape in Bela krajina and Ljubljansko barje (July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2004)